Last updated March 2, 2018 at 4:25 pm
Topics: Space
Swirling cloud formations in the northern area of Jupiter’s north temperate belt have been photographed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
This colour-enhanced image was taken on Wednesday 7 February at 1:42pm UTC, as Juno performed its eleventh close fly-by of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 8,186 kilometres from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of 39.9 degrees.
Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.
To find out more about the Juno mission, check out the mission websites: https://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu
